Exceeding expectation in the realm of Hard to Be Around? Who? RantWoman? Nah. Impossible!
Please hold the problem in the Light and join RantWoman in
trying, after the fact, to hit some kind of decent note about Memorial Day.
See graphic above. RantWoman apologizes but alt text is
beyond her and RantWoman hopes people who need it have access to OCR to read
about the truly preposterous sums of money invested in bombing people in Yemen
who live on $2 /day.
RantWoman is finding it hard to hit the right Quakerly note
about Memorial Day. The #MemorialDay hashtag on Twitter is full of
appreciations for people who perished in battles in conflicts / deployments /
campaigns / endless war that RantWoman disapproves of. RantWoman also tartly
notes all the stories of veterans vividly illustrating that not all the
casualties are deaths. Further RantWoman cringes whenever she hears radio
stories of truly outrageous substandard housing, desparate families trying to
survive amid the rigors of long and unpredictable deployments, and LOTS of
privations RantWoman is deeply grateful never even to have been eligible to
have to endure.
At least RantWoman can find it in her heart to appreciate the commander who makes a point of remembering the people who have been killed on his watch.
And then we get to RantWoman in judgmental Witch mode: a
local Friend recently posted about feeling entitled to all the same benefits
due veterans because of his work on behalf of peace. RantWoman would also add
working to protect our freedom and democracy, EXCEPT that RantWoman’s standards
of integrity require that very privileged white people also grapple with the
reality of who is actually doing the fighting and getting killed. It is one
thing to assert privilege for oneself; it is another to use one’s privilege…
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